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Re: Tiff images with "short" Palette? [message #73867 is a reply to message #73866]

Tue, 07 December 2010 12:13

David Fanning
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Matt writes:

> So I'm really creating these great geotiffs in IDL, but I'm having
> problems with the palettes that are attached.
>
> I think I've boiled my problem down to the way I'm making my tif
> files. For the sake of argument, I am creating the tif with a 2
> element color palette, but IDL appears to be creating a 255 color
> palette in the background and storing a bunch of information that I
> don't want.

Yes, I think a 256 element vectors are stored as the color
palette.

> Does anyone know of a way to get around this problem?

What problem are we talking about, exactly? The fact
that the return vectors are 256 elements in length?
Then just load the first two elements of these vectors
in the color table.

Is that what you are looking for?

Cheers,

David

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		Re: Tiff images with "short" Palette? By: Matt[2] on Tue, 07 December 2010 14:21
		Re: Tiff images with "short" Palette? By: David Fanning on Tue, 07 December 2010 12:32
		Re: Tiff images with "short" Palette? By: Matt[2] on Tue, 07 December 2010 12:26
		Re: Tiff images with "short" Palette? By: David Fanning on Tue, 07 December 2010 12:13
		Re: Tiff images with "short" Palette? By: jeanh on Wed, 08 December 2010 07:26
		Re: Tiff images with "short" Palette? By: Bruce Bowler on Wed, 08 December 2010 05:35

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